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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Greetings from a "Newbie Wannabe" Date: 1 Feb 1997 23:19:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5d0j1u$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32F242D8.6EA1@hicom.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34622 Bob Marsh <bmarsh@hicom.net> wrote: > C: drive - 420Mb IDE > D: drive - 850Mb with two partitions: > D: 350Mb Primary DOS > E: 500Mb Secondary DOS (for the UNIX Partition) > I plan to boot BSD from the second Hard Drive (the E: logical drive). > If that's going to cause a problem, I'd like to know. It's not a problem, but if your drive 0x81 (what you're referring to as ``D: drive'') is the master on the secondary IDE controller, you can't hit just Enter at the boot prompt but need to: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel (or have to rebuild custom bootblocks later). That's since FreeBSD takes the first IDE drive on the secondary controller as wd2 (leaving space for a wd1 at 1st ctrl/2nd drive), while the BIOS numbers it as the second drive, not the third. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)